Over the past month, we have all been adjusting to a new normal for our congregations. When we learned that we would need to close our sanctuaries and stop meeting …
Where Do You Go When You Can’t Go Out?
Does it feel like we are on the cusp, either of a new awakening or a devolution into chaos? Perhaps we are on the edge of creating a new world, or we are on the edge of losing our world?
Ten Ways the Church Will be Changed by COVID-19
By Rev. Cameron Trimble, CEO of Convergence We are now three weeks into a global shutdown because of the coronavirus. It’s become clear that we are in this for the …
What is the Point of Faith?
Today we learned that seven of our friends were furloughed and/or lost their jobs. One of them has a chronic health condition and will be losing her insurance on Tuesday. It’s …
Measuring Ministry
Rev. Cameron Trimble I was recently guiding consulting work with a company in New York working in the health and wellness sector. We had reached the stage where we were …
Trends Impacting Your Church (whether you know it or not)
Once you grant yourself the freedom to become curious about the shifts in our wider culture, suddenly the answers to these questions become obvious even as new questions become apparent.
FINDING YOUR FOCUS
The pace at which we are living and the rate at which we are working is NOT a problem. It’s a condition. You don’t solve a condition. You treat a condition.
What Will Our Churches Do?
We know that our elected officials are failing to offer leadership at this critical moment in history. The question is: Will our churches do the same?
Can All Sing, America?
Are we allowing space for the singing of the migrant and the child caged at our borders?
Keeping an Eye on the United Methodists
We have confessed the harm we have done and continue to do to our siblings and have covenanted to faithfully keep our baptismal vow to follow Jesus Christ in resisting “evil, injustice, and oppression in whatever forms they present themselves.”